We Cant Marry Because we Speak the Same Language

No podemos casarnos porque hablamos la misma lengua

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Subject LanguageBará
Tuyuca
Tucano
Barasana
Carapana
Language PID(s)ailla:119619
ailla:119787
ailla:119653
ailla:119786
ailla:274702
Title [Indigenous]
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TitleWe Cant Marry Because we Speak the Same Language
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Date Created2021-06-25
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DescriptionPresentation abstract: Since the 1970s, the Eastern Tukanoan groups living in Colombia and Brazil have been known for generalized multilingualism resulting from their practice of linguistic exogamy (Sorensen 1967; Jackson 1972, 1974, 1983; Hugh-Jones 1979). These groups are patrilineal, patrilocal and, we could say, ‘patrilingual’. In a nuclear family, husband and wife must belong to different patrilineal groups and, therefore, express their affiliation through the exclusive use of their father’s language, in spite of the fact that children spend their childhood with women and learn their mother’s language first. Several issues concerning the languages involved will be examined. The belief that the father’s language is the expression of an individual’s essence, reflected in the use of the verb ‘speak’ to refer to the father’s language but ‘imitate’ for the other languages, including the mother’s - as do the most traditional groups (Pira-parana river, Colombia). Intensive language contact between groups involved in preferential alliance relationships favors linguistic variation and linguistic acculturation - as in the Barasana and Edúuria case, with ‘languages’ sharing the same grammar, differing mainly by their tonal system (Gomez-Imbert 1999). Or an extreme situation, observed in Brazil, where the father’s identity language is abandoned in favor of the Tukano language. The marriage of lovers sharing patrilinearity and ‘patrilinguality’ is forbidden, incestuous. But the issue is not as dramatic as in Shakespeare’s drama: the couple chooses exile.
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Contributor(s) Individual / RoleGomez-Imbert, Elsa (Author)
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